Home Organization Services Blog
Tips & Inspiration
Welcome to the Organizing Boston Blog, your go-to resource for expert home organization services tips, decluttering strategies, and real-life transformations.
Whether you’re looking for pantry organization ideas, home office efficiency tips, or moving and downsizing guidance, our professional organizers share insights to help you create a more functional, stress-free home.
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Apr 2016
Closet Clutter Crisis Infographic
Closet Clutter Crisis Infographic Our friends at Maid Brigade helped us create this cool infographic about clothing consumption. Read this infographic for interesting statistics on closet clutter and some terrific home organizing tips to help you end closet clutter for good! View the infographic below and check out our blog post 7 Key Questions to End Closet Clutter Chaos for more information.
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Apr 2016FREE Webinar to help you get organized!
We want to help you learn how to get organized! Join us for a free live webinar: Organize your STUFF™: Five Steps to Organize Anything. In this engaging presentation, you will learn our no fail, 5 step process to organize anything, which we call “STUFF”. When it comes to organizing, it can be hard to know where to start and easy to get overwhelmed. But...
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Apr 2016How I went paperless, and then went back to paper again
How I went paperless, and then went back to paper again. A few years ago I invested in a NEAT scanner with the goal of creating a completely paperless office. Being a professional organizer in Boston, I am pretty good a purging, but still managed to have two file drawers full of papers that I needed (or wanted) to keep. I had my office assistant...
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Mar 2016Rethinking and Reorganizing Formal Spaces
Rethinking and Reorganizing Formal Spaces Many industry experts from architects to real estate agents and professional organizers alike agree that formal spaces like dining rooms and formal living rooms are becoming increasingly obsolete for many people. As early as 1992, home builders and architects forecasted the elimination of such spaces due to the way we are living in the current world. Television is cited as...
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Mar 2016Organizing Awkward Spaces Part III: The Eave-entual Challenge
Organizing Awkward Spaces Part III: The Eave-entual Challenge One final place I should address is the existence of eaves in closets and other storage areas. Cape Cod style homes, farmhouses, old buildings and even contemporary architecture often have eaves within closets and pantries or laundry areas. In particular, closets suffer the most from the intrusion. There is typically a single shelf and a rod for...
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Mar 2016Organizing Awkward Spaces Part II: Inherited Space
Organizing Awkward Spaces Part II: Inherited Space Hello and welcome to Part II for our Organizing Awkward Spaces Blog Series. Today we’ll help you out sort out those spaces you’ve inherited that are set up with someone else’s hobby or profession in mind. What on earth can you do with a closet entirely designed for the storage of hair coloring tubes? Or a garage space...
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Feb 2016Organizing Awkward Spaces Part I: Your Kitchen
Organizing Awkward Spaces Part I: Your Kitchen Welcome to our latest blog series: Organizing Awkward Spaces. In this series, we’ll cover all of those odd spaces you don’t know what to do with. Here in Part I, we’ll help you tackle those awkward spaces in your kitchen. If you live in a small home, you are probably aware of the challenges of organizing: limited closet space,...
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Jan 2016A Professional Organizer can help reduce stress – in more ways than you know!
A Professional Organizer can help reduce stress – in more ways than you know! By Kate Altieri: Professional Organizer, Organizing Boston The Holmes and Rahe Life-Stress Inventory is a list of 43 events in life that can cause people the most stress. And as we all know, stress can lead to health and other problems if not managed well. You may not think of hiring...
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